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From: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 17:46:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV9t=Qpm3W3weZDr0x5mDUBBpDq9s2Q6JURSSRzZfX9aFpUPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AS8PR07MB714100AE9CFC6D5AAEE34179D91A9@AS8PR07MB7141.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com>

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On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 9:21 AM Sylwester Rutkowski wrote:

The setup-x86_64.exe is reported as malicious at
> https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/edd0a64dc65087ffe453ca94b267169b39458a983b29ac31320fcaa983d0f97e/detection
>
> Can this be resolved somehow?


This is, of course, a false positive.

There are basically two things you can do:

1. Exempt it from your scanner.

2. Report it to the vendor as a false positive.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-08  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-07 16:20 Sylwester Rutkowski
2022-12-07 21:54 ` Dan Harkless
2022-12-09 11:39   ` Oskar Skog
2022-12-09 17:51     ` Dan Harkless
2022-12-09 18:49       ` Christian Franke
2022-12-08  0:46 ` Bill Stewart [this message]

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